Martin proposed to his boyfriend of one year, Jwan Yosef, and shared the news on Ellen today (November 16th). Ellen peppered him with questions about how they met. “He’s a conceptual artist and I’m a collector, so I started looking for art and I saw his art and I went crazy because I really loved what he does, really original, and I contacted him,” Martin explained.

Ellen quickly interrupted with a joke. “And then you collected him,” she said.

But Martin turned serious when describing the proposal. “I was really nervous but I got on my knees, and I took out the little…no box, I had them in a little velvet pouch,” he recounted. “Instead of saying ‘Will you marry me?’ I said, ‘I got you something.’ Bad. And then he was like ‘Yes?’ I said, ‘I want to spend my life with you, and he was like, ‘What is the question?'”